It’s a little early: Apple Safari vulnerability was discovered in the 16th year!

A security vulnerability has been found in Safari, the popular internet browser developed by Apple, that has existed since the days of the first Intel processor-powered Macs. Moreover, this vulnerability was noticed thanks to the presentation by Oligo Security researchers at the Defcon hacker conference. Here is the reaction from Apple…

Apple announced that it will close the Safari vulnerability

Researchers who discovered this 16-year-old vulnerability in Safari revealed that this vulnerability allows websites to communicate with services on the local network and can run code on users’ devices by targeting the 0.0.0.0 IP address. The interesting thing is that this vulnerability has been known since 2006…

Apple announced that it will close this vulnerability with the Safari 18 update. However, no one except macOS Sequoia beta users can access this update yet. The same vulnerability was found to exist in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Both Google and Mozilla stated that they were aware of the situation and officially announced that the vulnerability would be closed very soon.

This vulnerability could allow hackers to gain access to your device and run malicious software. Therefore, while you wait for the new version of Safari, you may want to consider using a different browser for your security. In addition, be sure to keep your operating system and other software updated and scan them frequently with anti-virus applications.

What do you say about this vulnerability that is said to be closed by Apple? Do you think it is normal that this vulnerability has not been discovered for 16 years? Don’t forget to share your comments with us.